Index

  • “A Plea for Lean Software”
  • “a skew to the right” distributions
  • accounting of contracts
  • accounting periods
  • active customer/supplier arrangements
  • activity analyses
  • addressable markets
  • aerospace
  • African mortality rates
  • air traffic controllers
  • aircraft
  • Alexander the Great
  • all-out counter-attacks
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • amnesia, corporate
  • architecture
    • outsourcing
    • Seriously Shaky Software
  • “as-is” states
  • Asia Minor
  • attacking teamwork strategies
  • audience expectation level
  • August upgrade window
  • autocratic approaches
  • automobiles
  • average age of mortality
  • average project size
  • bad organisational connectivity
  • balanced scorecards
  • bankruptcy
  • BCS see British Computer Society
  • benchmarking, outsourcing
  • benefits minus costs
  • bespoke applications
  • Best Practice models
  • best-case scenarios
  • “better out than in” doctrine
  • Better Tomorrow strategy
  • big firm consultants
  • Bioinformatics
  • Black Death/black-hole projects
  • blackmail
  • Bleeding Budgets
    • investment
    • morbidity tables
    • operational cost
    • other funding
    • roulette tables
      • expenditure
      • final touches
      • future
      • goodness
      • selection
  • blended rates
  • bloatware
  • blue screen of death (BSOD)
  • Board of Directors
  • Boeing airplanes
  • Boston Consulting Growth Share Matrix
  • “boys with their toys”
  • BPO see business process outsourcing
  • Bradford, John
  • Brazil
  • breaking-up-the-road-behind you approaches
  • British Computer Society (BCS)
  • BSOD see blue screen of death
  • budget
  • budgets see Bleeding Budgets
  • bulk emails
  • business analyses
  • business process outsourcing (BPO)
  • cannon fodder ...

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